All of the cigarette butts that will be collected are going to be sent to TerraCycle, a company which has a process to turn the butts into plastic that is then used to make different goods, like shipping pallets. The tobacco is separated out and sent to compost so it’s a win-win situation.
L’entreprise TerraCycle, basée à Toronto, s’évertue à «éliminer la notion de déchet en recyclant le "non-recyclable"». Grâce à elle, des stylos, des gants de plastique et des dosettes de café peuvent trouver une seconde vie, de même que les mégots de cigarette.
L’entreprise TerraCycle, basée à Toronto, s’évertue à «éliminer la notion de déchet en recyclant le "non-recyclable"». Grâce à elle, des stylos, des gants de plastique et des dosettes de café peuvent trouver une seconde vie, de même que les mégots de cigarette.
A Laurier Brantford graduate is urging smokers to cast their butts.
John Panesso Ramirez wants smokers to put their cigarette butts in a new gadget called the Ballot Bin instead of flicking them onto the sidewalk.
“I’m not sure of the dimensions,” Ramirez said during the Ballot Bin’s unveiling last week. “But up here, in this flat area, you put a question, something like ‘Will the Toronto Maple Leafs with the Cup this year, yes or no.?’
It's a sure sign of spring in London.
The snow is melting and long-buried cigarette butts are resurfacing.
"Basically all litter that's been piling up becomes that much more visible," said Jay Stanford, the director of fleet and solid waste at the city.
So, where do they all go?
For the past few years, butts collected in the city's pole-mounted bins have been sent to Terracycle, a company that specializes in recycling unusual products.
In the middle segment, we interview Jessica Panetta from Terracycle, a private recycling company that helps close the gap where municipal recycling systems fail or can't handle certain materials. We talk to Jessica about recycling cigarette buts, making benches out of bottles and complimenting municipal systems.
TerraCycle was featured in a 30 minute podcast episode on the Zero Waste Countdown, which can also be downloaded on the Podcast app (AppleCoreMedia), iTunes, Stitcher and Castbox.
Did you know that you can recycle pens at the University of Ottawa? A few years ago, the Office of Campus Sustainability introduced Pen Recycling on campus as an expansion to the recycling program. There is only one problem... how can you get people to recycle something they don't know that they can recycle?
PUBLIC spaces in Rhodes and Concord are looking cleaner and greener thanks to Council's Bin your Butts project, says Mayor Angelo Tsirekas.
C'est en lisant (goulûment) le livre de Sophie Caillat que j'ai découvert l'existence de TerraCycle. Comme j'ai pas mal essayé de freiner les achats fait avec des produits non recyclables, il y a quand même quelques irréductibles que je ne me vois pas (pour le moment) passer à la trappe.
